While taking a break from all the action that had been going on the last few days, Meow leaves her HQ for a brief moment to address the crowd

She lights a cigarrete, catches her breath and begins.

Good evening ladies and gentleman,

I come here today to address the citizens of this world of ours to unburden this weight that I carry inside my chest. I ask for your opinion on these recents events.

What have we come to? What world is this.. A world where we turn our backs to everything and everyone for an idea, a thought, a random act of foolishness.. Where we turn our backs to our crew leaders, to our upper structure, to those that stretched their hands to us when we needed them the most, when we were out there in the streets with no roof to protect us from rain nor shelter to protect us from any gunner that saw us as a target for practice.

Meow lowers her head in shame, shakes it a couple of times, takes a puff from the almost extinct cigarette and continues

I reached these shores for the first time six years ago and never in my family bloodline have I heard such stories of crews inside the same city turning against each other because of an alliance with a crew from another city. Never heard stories where someone that was given the nod to open their own squad, put the lives of thirty'ish people that trusted them for their leader, for such a shameful way of thinking that friendship overcomes assuredness.

I find it somehow uncomfortable that nowadays people see a auth as something they deserve. As an obligation that the current upper structure has to give, as a reward for all their effort in ranking up and helping their own family grow. And when I say a auth, I say a nod to rank up. These greenhorns don't understand that effort is something you have to show every day.. It's your obligation. It's your way of saying thank you for the hand that was stretched to you.

Meow takes one last big puff, throws the cigarette but to the nearest gutter and takes one last breath to finish the speech

Is this what we want for this thing of ours? Can we even say we truly represent how the mafia works?

The lies, the backstabs, the disrespect for those that helped us, the nonchalence in our code.

Appel walks past Meow, and takes out one of his cookies. It seems that this guy has something nice to tell, so he took a nice crate from the street and sat down. this guy was really going at it, about what we want for this world of ours. 

after meow finishes his talk Appel stands up and gets up onto his crate. 

"Hello everyone, I know i'm only a small boy. But I must say this world around me seems a bit strange to me, I know we are in a different world then the one where you can trust everyone. But still there was always an honour between thiefs, they would not just shoot people unless they had a good reason. But this seems that this code of honour is gone.

The only way we can have a world with some kind of peace again is when people stop shooting everyone they see. people need to start talking with each other, don't just shoot people you don't like or that made a mistake. Just let them pay a fine before they get killed.

But like i said i'm still a little boy in this world, I just like eating cookies and making the money to buy those cookies for myself. And in a world where you can get shot just for buying your cookies at the wrong shop. I'll be carefull with everything i'll do until we have one dictator or some like minded people leading us. until the keep safe and stay alive. "

after this he got of his crate and went underneath it, then he started to walk away like a turtle. This way the rest of the people might mis him 

I reached these shores for the first time six years ago and never in my family bloodline have I heard such stories of crews inside the same city turning against each other because of an alliance with a crew from another city.

I'm calling bullshit right there. Absolute bullshit.

Several instances where people have chosen friends over family/city. This isn't new. Also, 6 years ago the structure of our world was very different to how it is now, we have expanded to districts which we didn't have before, so I'm assuming you are ignoring that side of things when you speak of people within the city not turning on one another, as we've had several instances where districts have been fighting one another.

I agree to a lesser extent that the people of today have this expectation that they deserve something because of doing a little work, as though working for your leader is you going the extra mile instead of the basic standard. That does really piss me off, but that itself is the fault of those before us that perpetuated such attitudes and worse at times encouraged them.

Can we turn these attitudes around? I don't know. I think the expectation levels have been rising and rising for many years now and its come to a stage where everyone and their aunt thinks they can lead a family and deserve a shot. Who are we to say they can't, though? New blood is always welcome in my opinion, but only when they have genuinely done something to earn that shot and these days there are very few people that earn it - oh and I don't mean by sending up loads of tribute money; whilst cash is king, that doesn't earn anything as far as im concerned as that is only one small little part of our world and a leader should have a great many proven attributes before getting the nod.

Personally, I find the automatically assumed loyalty stance we adopt towards bricks and mortar a little bizarre. It would seem more likely to me that the other families on your doorstep are the one's you're most likely to have an issue with, rather than those half the country away who are actually more likely to be your business partners than your rivals. All seems a little back to front.

If these others on your doorstep were generally random folk you didn't know very well, then I'd agree. Chances are though, that person was once housed in the same HQ as you were as many people that run a family in their district are from the original family that moved to that particular district.

Not always the case of course, but in situations like we face now where there are a lack of leaders due to war, its likely that people will build more HQs in their own district and give permission from those within their own family to spread their wings.

So then having an issue with those people down the line is going to be a relatively small chance.

This rather reminds me of the claims and counter-claims that arise after four people order the same dish at the same restaurant, but with one slight variance.

Let us call them Persons A, B, C and D.

A, B, C & D all order cheeseburgers with fries and a coke.  But A, B and C want theirs with mustard, D with none.  Meanwhile, B, C and D want extra pickle, but A just wants the standard.  B and D want onions, A wants fried onions, and C wants none.  A and D want "catsup", whilst B and C don't.

So what do we have?  Four people wanting the same thing in different ways.

But are they really different?

I was really commenting on the original speaker's contention that he had never come across issues between families of the same city and how shameful it was to put other families in different cities over your neighbours. I don't find it shameful. I actually find it strange (read:unrealistic) that we automatically demand everyone in the same city to be allies, when they would in all likelihood be in direct competition with each other. Part of this would probably stem from the type of situation you've outlined. 

It would seem more likely to me that the other families on your doorstep are the one's you're most likely to have an issue with, rather than those half the country away who are actually more likely to be your business partners than your rivals. All seems a little back to front.

Our lifestyle has evolved. We have gone from being just a city to fragmented Districts. Now its really up to the leaders to choose to either work together or chase their own dreams solo. Its this fragmentation within the city that causes such 'flips'. I mean think about it for a second. Someone thats a city across is a partner/ally, what they choose to do inside their district/city is their business. But if a Central leader enforces something on a city and one of the districts are either disconnected or not for that policy, we have the starting of cracks. Its usually not the head hancho's that bang heads (since they come from the same HQ's usually). But its usually the men and women behind them that usually start to question such decisions or lack there of in policy.